swan 78 sailboat

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The architect

Germ á n frers.

All of Nautor´s know-how and experience in racing and cruising yachts have been incorporated into this new blue-water Swan 78, a direct descendant of the original Swan 80 and 82 models of the past. She is slightly shorter overall – in order to meet the EC 24.00 metre length overall limitation – beamier and more powerful. The modern hull lines, including a wide stern above the waterline, twin rudders and racing oriented keel design, are a reflection of the rapid evolution of yacht design during the past years, propelled by the experiences made on round-the-world races and other offshore events. The new boat is faster, safer, easier to control and, as a result, more comfortable at sea. The keel options include deep telescopic lifting, fixed deep and fixed shallow possibilities yet maintaining stability, the same rudder configuration and standard sail plan. The same could be said of the deck with its modern design, uncluttered surfaces and straightforward, simple solutions to sail handling and life at sea. The appearance is that of neatness and efficiency. Centered around the main saloon and engine room, which maintain the same position facilitating weight distribution, planning of installations and flotation trim, presenting three cabins: one double berth VIP and two twin berth layouts. These allow for side by side bunks on the second and third guest rooms. Crew accommodations for two are ample and functional in both cases. This new Swan is, and will be, the best of her kind for years to come.

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The deck is the one area of the yacht where owners, guests and crew spend the most time. Here is where the yacht is handled under sail, and here is where guests enjoy the seascapes at anchor. The Swan 78 deck layout is the most recent evolution of the “S” concept (Semi-raised Saloon), with the celebrated Swan coachroof, discreet and streamlined, with panoramic views from inside, due to the raised saloon. On the 78 Frers signature lines have given their very best, with sleek curves that create a volume capable of protecting the cockpit and creating more space below. The coachroof design is a masterly mix of curved lines and multifaceted surfaces, with 360 degree windows and a generous roof that doubles up as a sunbathing area. The recessed sprayhood and the full beam bimini keep guests always well protected in a cockpit/lounge that features two C shaped settees each with its own table.

All manoeuvres are at the centre of the cockpit and can be handled easily by a reduced crew. The five available winches are well placed around the helm stations with a central tower dedicated to the mainsheet. As an option, a captive winch for main sheet can be provided.

Further aft the deck is equipped for sunbathing and swimming, with a completely open space than can be equipped with cushions and access to the beach area, which also opens a full beam lazarette that can stow a rigid inflatable.

Forward of the mast the deck is completely uncluttered, an expanse of pure teak that ends at the forepeak with the large locker for the anchor.

The interior designer

Heini gustafsson.

To provide the most flexibility and satisfy any possible owners’ requirement, in the interiors configuration the Owner has a large suite forward, cooler and quieter. It is 4.5 m long, with an island bed that is completely accessible on three sides. A desk and dedicated bathroom, with large separate shower compartment, complete this luxurious apartment.

The accommodation also features three guest cabins with different layouts, all ensuite with separate shower compartments. The saloon is also over 6 m wide. It is raised to provide better panoramic views. Below, ample bilge volumes allow for a full beam engine room, totally soundproofed and large enough to accommodate a variety of systems and equipment. The crew quarters are separate, forward or aft according to the chosen layout, with an ensuite cabin. The galley is in the same area, with large cooking areas and refrigerated stowage.

The celebrated Nautor finish guarantees top quality both in the technical details and in the finishing, with a wide choice of veneers and accessories.

Sailing a Swan 78 is an experience that instantly explains the latest design trends for sailing yachts. The first feature that emerges is her extreme stability during sailing, made possible through her twin rudders. Indeed, as heel angle increases, the geometry in the water alters to adapt to the new position. The windward rudder lifts while the leeward one dips progressively, becoming more perpendicular and at the same time more efficient. Heeling stability is guaranteed – with the first few degrees of heel, the hull form facilitates prompt acceleration even in light conditions. Heel angle stabilises at around 20 degrees, remaining symmetrical and balanced throughout. Beyond this inclination, the hull shape contributes dynamically to the vertical force provided by the T-shaped keel, maintaining the optimal hull position.

All this translates into two fundamental and apparently opposite effects. These are that performance is optimised keeping the hull sailing to its lines and therefore all the naval architecture including keel and rudders at maximum efficiency, and at the same time the yacht remains comfortable and liveable, allowing life on board to continue normally even when sailing upwind for long distances. If her performance off-wind appears obvious, the new Swan 78 amazes even more upwind. Perfect balance translates into unexpected agility, with the helms remaining light. The rudders, almost always at centre, are only necessary for changing course. This allows those on board to play amongst the waves and promptly follow wind shifts. The Swan 78 allows her crew to sail at double digit boat speeds constantly and safely, easily managing manoeuvres from around the twin helms. At anchor, the various areas for relaxing, protected from or immersed in the elements, allows those on board to fully enjoy the surrounding scenery.

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Swan 78: On board Nautor's Swan's brand new fast cruiser

With its new 24 metre, Nautor’s Swan has cleaved into two lines – comfortable cruisers and racing boats. The no-compromise philosophy speaks volumes, says Sam Fortescue

Nautor’s Swan has changed its tune. The Finnish builder of luxury sailing yachts has decided there will be no more racing boats disguised as cruisers emerging from its yard in the far north-west of Finland. From here on in, it will build swift cruisers on one side and Grand Prix-winning racing boats on the other.

“The classic compromise formula isn’t valid anymore,” says Vanni Galgani, product line leader for Swan Yachts. “The yacht market has separated into those fully focused on family cruising and those who go all-out for speed.” To that end, Swan Yachts has become the wrapper for the cruising side, while Club Swan Yachts will experiment with new design concepts and technologies, building boats specifically designed for the world’s most competitive races.

But hold on a moment. Before we get too far down the road with this idea that Swan is building spacious family cruisers (which it is), I have to stress that these are still fast boats. “Of course,” adds Galgani with a smile, “everyone knows that any Swan is a potential race winner, and our cruising yachts will still be capable of competing successfully at the highest level.”

The Swan 78 is the first fruit of this new philosophy – a fast cruiser resulting from several years of study and reflection led by the brand’s owner, Leonardo Ferragamo, who is himself a passionate sailor. The boat is still drawn by the yard’s long-standing designer, the talented Germán Frers, so the design language of the boat is familiar to Swan fanciers. But look more closely and you see that the topsides are taller, the coachroof a little higher, and the aft section of the boat broader and squarer than previous models.

“In terms of volume, it’s amazing,” says Galgani. “It’s comparable with the much longer Swan 90.” But in terms of habitable area, the 78 offers even bigger volumes than her cousin. The owner’s cabin, for example, is more than 10 cubic metres bigger than the Swan 90.

A lot of work goes into the naval architecture to ensure that the hull is slippery and light, while the rig remains powerful thanks to the four-metre bulb keel under the boat. Frers describes the 78 as being well capable of holding her own in events such as the Swan Cup. “The double-fin rudders configuration gives her plenty of control,” he explains. “I am very happy with the way she performs – she seems to be well-balanced, fast, reactive and of course, she’s also very pleasant from an aesthetic point of view.”

So she’s a departure from previous Swans, but not a revolutionary one. This is more a question of evolution. And for out-and-out racers, Swan will keep developing its Club Swan line, currently the 36, 50 and the 125.

Sadly, the day of my sea trial couldn’t offer more than five knots of limp northerly, but in the protected waters of the Bay of Palma, this zephyr was enough to waft the boat up to a shade more than four knots of boat speed. The super-efficient 3Di main and roller jib from North Sails held their shape well, although the wind wasn’t strong enough to trouble the spirit-level flat deck. Sail handling was a breeze, courtesy of four well-positioned Harken 990 hydraulic winches. All the control lines emerge from a conduit beneath the teak decking and feed straight on to the winch drums – a really neat set-up that can be the result only of meticulous deck layout planning. The main sheet is on a captive winch below the deck, so there is no rope to clutter the cockpit.

This boat, Kinina , has a very keen sailing owner who was present for large parts of the delivery trip from Finland to the Mediterranean. Together with the skipper, Luis de Córdova, and the first mate, they faced their first gale off the north-west tip of Brittany, which forced them to weave through the rock-strewn, tide-scoured waters of the Chenal du Four to seek refuge in Brest.

“The owner was out on deck helming from midnight until 6am,” de Córdova tells me in a surprised voice. “I was really impressed by the boat. After that, I expected everything to fall open, doors to be broken – a big mess. But everything was in perfect condition still.” He stops short of saying he enjoyed the gale, but the boat handled well under staysail alone. He shows me the track fitted to the side of the mast to make rigging the sail easy.

For easier handling and more power round the cans or in longer races, Swan offers a performance upgrade. The 78 Haromi took this option, which adds a longer, elegant moulded-in bowsprit, ECsix carbon rigging, halyard locks, a square-top mainsail with running backstays, a mainsheet traveller and additional powered winches on the coachroof.

Both boats offer the same generous acreage of on-deck lounging space to make the most of the port or anchorage your racing or cruising brings you to. There are two long C-shaped seating areas on either side of the cockpit, a broad teak-clad aft deck, and a big bathing platform that lowers hydraulically to reveal the cavernous aft lazarette – perfect for storing the tender out of sight. The uncluttered foredeck can host loungers or cushions.

At 23.9 metres LOA, this boat is right in the middle of Swan’s sweet spot. A few centimetres shy of the 24 metres that would require the boat to be coded, she is the latest in a long line of boats around this size, from the Swan 76 in 1979, through the Swan 77, 80, 82 and 75. Despite her size, she is considered a semi-production model by Swan. “She is not fully customisable,” explains the Northern Europe regional director, Barry Ashmore.

In fact, there is just one key choice to make about the interior: whether to put the owner’s cabin forward or aft. There are compelling reasons for both but in my mind, at least, the aft choice is more seamanlike because it is closer to the cockpit and closer to the boat’s centre of gravity for more comfortable passage-making. So I am surprised to learn that all five of the hulls already sold have been specced with the forward owner’s cabin.

“This forward cabin is fully usable on long passages,” Ashmore says. “You’ll see that the head of the bed is close to the mast.” That puts sleepers closer to the centre of the boat’s motion for a more comfortable rest. In this configuration, the bed is free-standing and a genuine double, not tapering into the bow. There are three lee cloths to stop a couple from squashing each other on the heel, and the cabin offers tremendous stowage.

Perhaps this unanimous choice of forward cabin offers the strongest endorsement of Swan’s new cruiser positioning. While each of the five owners will be experienced sailors, they are all placing the accent on comfort at anchor. The forward cabin also offers good privacy, thanks to the high headboard of the bed.

“The light inside is ample and generous and I’m very satisfied with the results,” says Frers. “[There are] four very good-sized cabins with their own toilets and all the necessary space for stowage and comfort, [as well as] a proper galley for the crew and a crew cabin too, so I think you cannot ask for more on a boat of this size, on an envelope of good looks and good performance.”

Otherwise, the interior configuration is set in stone: a big saloon, two double guest cabins aft and one forward. Kinina cruised for part of the summer with nine guests aboard. With the main cabin aft, there is room for an extra crew cabin forward giving the option of up to four hands.

Swan really doesn’t see this binary choice as an impediment. With input from Germán Frers, senior designer for interiors and styling Heini Gustafsson rigorously studied all the layout possibilities, so what you see on Haromi and Kinina represents the optimum. Owners can rest assured that the serious thinking about configuration has already been done.

The same rigour was also applied to the interior finish. “We made a 1:1 scale mock-up of the interior in order to audit ergonomics and spatial composition,” Gustafsson says. “No matter what high-end 3D software is used to render the reality, the old-school methods reign in my opinion for space evaluation. Walking through a mock-up interior is also a reassuring part of the Swan experience when purchasing the first build in a line of yachts.”

The interior of Kinina is classic Nordic understatement: quarter-cut European oak cabinetry with a hand-rubbed satin finish and neutral-toned upholstery. The floorboards are naturally lined teak – “a first for Swan, but I think this customer request worked out very nicely,” says Gustafsson. “Sofa fabrics and leathers are all performance materials that are durable and easy to clean. They liked the ‘no frills’ approach that the yachts in the current Swan line are known for.”

That said, any number of variations are possible. “You can have leather, fabric, Picasso – whatever you want,” says Ashmore. And though all the owners so far have plumped for the signature Nordic look, the new cruiser positioning is likely to attract new customers with a broader palette. So perhaps Swan’s designers will soon be grappling with humidors and Finnish smoke saunas.

Invisible tech

It may come as a surprise from a boatbuilder that has launched yachts up to 40m, but the company says that the Swan 78 is its most technically demanding and innovative design yet. There are the new lines, which conceal naval architecture designed to give the boat constant stability and lift at any angle of heel. “The hull sections feature a tapered entrance and a powerful aft section,” explains Ashmore. “They are designed to maintain their symmetry at different heeling angles, with the optimal balance between performance and sea kindliness.”

The hull itself has a foam core, making it lighter and stiffer. On either side of this sandwich construction is a mixture of high-performance glass fibre reinforced with unidirectional carbon fibre. The whole is vacuum infused for precise bonding and minimum use of resin. The deck and coachroof are in carbon, cured in Swan’s vast oven.

“The interior is built as a combination of sandwich construction and traditional laminated wood for those recognisable rounded corners,” says Heini Gustafsson. “The most technological advantage is actually hidden in the finished interior components. In order to further increase the quality and precision of the detailing, joinery units are 3D-modelled and parts CNC milled. The boards are milled with small, stopped grooves and tongues for perfect alignment.”

First published in the April edition of Boat International .

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Germán Frers All of Nautor´s know-how and experience in racing and cruising yachts have been incorporated into this new blue-water Swan 78, a direct descendant of the original Swan 80 and 82 models of the past. She is slightly shorter overall - in order to meet the EC 24.00 metre length overall limitation - beamier and more powerful. The modern hull lines, including a wide stern above the waterline, twin rudders and racing oriented keel design, are a reflection of the rapid evolution of yacht design during the past years, propelled by the experiences made on round-the-world races and other...

With nearly 50 years of experience in composite large yacht construction, Nautor’s Swan offers an unparalleled know-how in the world of maxis. It was 1970 when the Swan 55, a Sparkman & Stephens design, became one of the largest composite sailing yachts of the time. And already in 1979 the 76 was launched, with the first magnificent Swan 86 hitting the water in 1988: that was one of the most beautiful maxis in history. The new Swan 78 represents, for Nautor today, a medium size, between the entry level 15 m yachts and the large 115-130 ft range. It benefits from years of experience in maxi...

The deck is the one area of the yacht where owners, guests and crew spend the most time. Here is where the yacht is handled under sail, and here is where guests enjoy the seascapes at anchor. The Swan 78 deck layout is the most recent evolution of the “S” concept (Semi-raised Saloon), with the celebrated Swan coachroof, discreet and streamlined, with panoramic views from inside, due to the raised saloon. On the 78, Frers signature lines have given their very best, with sleek curves that create a volume capable of protecting the cockpit and creating more space below. The design is a masterly...

The transom opens on nearly all its width, to create a ‘beach area’ that is over 4 m wide to directly access the sea The large full beam lazarette is large enough to stow a rigid inflatable and can also be accessed from the cockpit The dinette, with C shaped settees over 3.5 m long and two separate tables that can be set up in various configurations, is protected by a large recessed sprayhood Layout optimized for shorthanded sailing, with five standard electric winches all concentrated around the helm stations Forward, a deep forepeak and anchor locker provide ample space and sail stowage...

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Nautor’s Swan Launches a 78

• By Kevin Koenig
• Updated: May 29, 2018

Nautor’s Swan recently splashed the 78-foot Haromi in the bracing waters of the Baltic Sea. The investment-grade sailing yacht made her debut off of Pietarsaari, Finland, on what was reported to be an unusually sunny day.

Haromi was designed by German Frers for the open ocean, and is considered a true blue-water sailing vessel. As such, Nautor’s Swan had to use all of its hard-earned experience and knowledge to create a boat that was at once sturdy and exceptionally seaworthy, while also being aesthetically pleasing to the eye. The boat has sleek, modern lines and a flared stern above the waterline. Her twin rudders and telescopic keel allow her to cover long distances quickly.

The yacht’s owner has a racing pedigree, and has enjoyed much competitive success. Because of his background, he asked Nautor’s Swan to kit the boat out with some bespoke racing features that really make her fly. She has an unusually long bowsprit, ECsix carbon rigging, a square-top mainsail with running backstays, halyard locks, additional power winches on the coachroof and a mainsheet traveler. All of these well thought out design choices help this boat sail quickly and smoothly over the ocean blue.

The Swan has a modern deck layout that caters both to actively sailing and to lounging once the owner has reached his destination. The builder took great care to make sure the deck was simultaneously neat and efficient, particularly when sailing shorthanded. To that end there are five powered winches near the twin helm stations aft, and all lines lead aft from the mast. There are C-shaped settees in Haromi ‘s cockpit as well as extra stowage, two tables and an extra-large sprayhood. Aft of that, the teak swim platform functions well as a beach club once the vessel is on the hook.

Down below, the salon has panoramic views and is an excellent place for socializing when the weather is snotty. A forward master stateroom keeps the owner well rested while a VIP aft of that has a double berth. There are also two cabins with twin berths as well as a generous crew quarters.

The Nautor’s Swan 78 will be on display at the Cannes Yachting Festival this September.

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